is a Japanese actor represented by Tom company. His father is actor

Kazuo Kitamura was a Japanese actor. His son is actor Yukiya Kitamura. Kitamura met Shōhei Imamura when he was a student of Waseda University and became a close friend so often worked with Imamura. Kitamura joined Bungakuza theatre company and started his act ...

and his wife is actress

Shiho Takano is a Japanese actress who is represented by the talent agency, Tom company. Takano's husband is actor Yukiya Kitamura is a Japanese actor represented by Tom company. His father is actor Kazuo Kitamura and his wife is actress Shiho Takano. Bi ...

Biography

While in Tokyo Metropolitan Institute Fuji High School, Kitamura was interested in theater and wants to be an aspiring actor. He later studied acting at the Japan Institute of the Moving Image and in 1998 he debuted in the stage play '' Spring Awakening'' and the film ''

Dr. Akagi Dr. Akagi, known in Japan as , is a 1998 Japanese Comedy-drama film by director Shohei Imamura. For his work on the film, Yosuke Yamashita was awarded Best Film Score at the 1999 Mainichi Film Concours. Plot The film concerns Dr. Akagi, a doc ...

''. Kitamura perform at stage shows but he does not belong to a specific theater company and in recent years he appeared in a number of

television drama In film and television show, television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or docudrama, semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humour, humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms t ...

s. On 2016 his first starring film role was ''Taiyō no Futa''. On June 4, 2013, Kitamura married actress

after dating for four years. He later announced in his blog that they later gave birth to male child on November 2014.

Filmography

Film

TV series

Variety shows

Awards

References

External links

Official profile
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kitamura, Yukiya 1974 births Living people Male actors from Tokyo